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Hey guys, first post here. Looking for someone who knows these bikes well to give me their opinion on something.

Background
2008 CBR600RR
Bought the bike almost 2 years ago. It had 300 miles on it, having sat in a garage for almost 10 years untouched. It was, as still is, in like new condition. I have almost 5,000 on it now. Mostly street riding, and a few track days. One of those track days I had a crunchy downshift from 2nd to first where I missed first and when I went from neutral to first sounded pretty rough. Everything seemed to be fine, I have been riding the bike without issue.

The bike runs, rides, shifts, etc just fine.

I was warming the engine up today prior to draining oil and while sitting next to the bike for a few minutes I picked up on some noise, which sounded like something solid getting kicked around in the bottom end. So, after draining the oil I pulled the clutch side engine cover off to take a peek.

There is nothing in the oil that came out. No shavings or chunks. That said, I got some pictures of the one row of gears that can be seen from the right side of the engine, and the gears appear to be notched at the end.

I have rebuilt the bottom end of my dirt bike and the gears never showed any kind of wear like this. To me, it indicates that my suspicion of the noise may have been correct and there is a chunk of metal kicking around in there and the gears are getting chewed up by it.

Hey guys in the process of carrying out a coolant flush.
The workshop manual states to remove the water pump drain bolt (the one under the lower fairing) and to also remove the cylinder drain bolt which is located near the headers.
Being an ABS model the "front power unit" makes it difficult...

Hello folks, need some insight. Recently did a coolant flush on my 08 600RR. As I was doing it, I left half way to run some errands. When I came back, ran my bike for 2 min and let is cool down for 45 mins realizing it hit 50 degrees. 2nd time I ran it again for 2 min, and it over heated to 80...

Okay my buddy comes by we start up my bike I didn't give it time to warm up I got on it pretty hard through first second and third and then my back dies I'm probably running how about 50 miles an hour I pop the clutch to row start it it starts as soon as I let off the throttle it dies I rode...

Hey, guys. Has anyone on here have hands on experience with a HRC parts? I always wanted to do the build but wondering if it is worth it. To me, a Honda HRC 600rr build is more of an emotional build rather than a actual performance gain. Hahaha
Anyone do these types of build and have real HP...